Recent Advances in Internet of Things and Sensor Networks

Dear Colleagues,

There has been some phenomenal research in the past few decades in sensor networks which aims to provide several applications that enable technology-assisted lifestyle, such as medical sensing applications, environmental monitoring applications, military sensing applications, underwater sensing applications, and hazard sensing applications. Similarly, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has continuously expanded to cover the applications of many daily life settings. Infrastructures such as smart cities, smart homes, smart buildings, smart health, and connected vehicles that connect our world are based on the single concept of IoT. The goal of IoT is to intelligently monitor, connect, and control networked embedded devices capable of sensing, computing, and communication of the sensed data over the Internet. These devices form a sophisticated interconnected network system that provides efficient transmission of useful measurement information via a distributed sensor network.

The purpose of this annual Special Issue is to gather papers on sensor networks and IoT in a dedicated form to provide a platform for the research community to contribute and direct the development of these technologies. We seek the latest findings from research and ongoing projects relevant to IoT and sensor networks. Additionally, review articles which provide readers with current research trends in both sensor networks and IoT are also welcome. The potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Cross-layer Protocols for sensor networks;
• Routing protocols for sensor networks;
• Transport layer protocols for sensor networks;
• MAC layer protocols for sensor networks;
• New emerging architectures for IoT and sensor networks;
• New applications and testbed for IoT and sensor networks;
• Energy-efficient protocols for WSN and IoT;
• Energy harvesting/scavenging for WSN and IoT;
• Security and privacy architectures for WSN and IoT;
• Interrelationship between WSN and IoT: similarities and differences;
• WSN aspects that are critical for future IoT;
• WSN issues and technologies for IoT applications;
• IoT management and monitoring;
• IoT platforms for education and applications;
• Cohesion of WSN and IoT to build a smart home, smart cities, smart buildings;
• Edge computing, fog computing and cloud computing in IoT;
• Artificial Intelligence, machine learning in IoT;
• Data analytics and scalable/parallel/distributed computing algorithms for IoT.

Prof. Dr. Dongkyun Kim
Dr. Jaime Lloret Mauri
Dr. Syed Hassan Ahmed
Dr. Muhammad Azfar Yaqub
Guest Editors

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